Posted on Feb 1, 2020
Bringing Back 'Archaic and Gruesome Weapons,' Trump Reverses US Restrictions on Landmines
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"The United States is doing a 180 on the near-global consensus to ban the abhorrent and inhumane use of landmines."
Bringing Back 'Archaic and Gruesome Weapons,' Trump Reverses US Restrictions on Landmines
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The fact we leave them and don’t clear the fields when we are done leaves much to be desired. They work but are vicious lost weapons after a war killing thousand of children.
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While I am for landmines, I am also for removing them responsibly. It’s not an issue of either, or… both can be done.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
SFC (Join to see) - And as another Engineer, the world wide problem with landmines isn't a we problem, it's a them problem. We started using self detonating scatterable mines back as far as Vietnam and our system of marking and retrieval has been pretty damn go. The issue has been in these brush fire wars where everyone scatters anti personnel and anti vehicle mines all over the place without any direction or marking, or retrieval program. Additionally, most of the Soviet Block scatterable mines did not self destruct.
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Definitely not a great weapon to have laying around and not accounted for later.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth Having Walked thru a WWII Minefield in Adak, No Argument from Me Shipmate.
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If it weren’t for land mines we would have a lot more US Military deaths. For what it’s worth I’m a 12B, I have a different outlook on life.
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